ITSM Virtual Agent Conversations release notes
- UpdatedMay 1, 2025
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Version history for the ServiceNow® ITSM Virtual Agent Conversations on the ServiceNow Store.
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Version history
- Version 9.2.4 - May 2025
- Fixed minor bugs.
- Version 9.2.3 - November 2024
- Fixed: Error while publishing the "Add Comment To Incident" topic.
- Version 9.2.2 - August 2024
- Fixed: Resolved issue where text input control is sending topic Sys_Id as plain text instead of prompt.
- Version 9.2.1 - February 2024
- Fixed: Resolved issue where walkup appointment details card was showing invalid date errors
- Version 9.2.0 - November 2023
- Changed: Renamed actionable notification topics to be easier to read.
- Version 9.1.0 - August 2023
- New:
- Added available pre-built topics and plugin dependencies content in the Virtual Agent Designer.
- Added email templates for Issue Auto Resolution.
- Enabled dialog act for pre-built topics.
- Fixed:
- Resolved issue with activating actionable notification flows.
- Updated category for actionable notifications.
- Updated Schedule Meeting EXO topic to handle multiple user records issue.
- New:
- Version 9.0.1 - May 2023
- New: Enabled AI Search capability to Issue Auto Resolution incident record
- Changed: Refactored topics to use newer message localization method
- Version 8.2.1 - February 2023
- New:
- New topic, Manage Meeting EXO v1.0 to help user manage their meeting.
- Schedule a meeting
- Reschedule a meeting
- Cancel one/all meetings
- New topic, Manage Meeting EXO v1.0 to help user manage their meeting.
- Changed: Manage Meeting EXO topic has been marked deprecated
- New:
- Version 8.1.2 - November 2022
- New: Deflection nodes added to Manage Walk-up (Template) topic to instrument whether the users were helped while using the topic.
- Version 8.0.1 - August 2022
- New:
- Self service topic to help users manage their Walk-up check-ins and appointments. 'Manage Walk-up (Template)' will help requesters check in to a queue, or book an in-person/remote appointments or manage their appointments from Virtual Agent Conversation.
- Separate topic blocks to take the required action on Walk-up appointments and check-ins
- Walk-up Check-in
- Schedule Walk-up Appointment
- Reschedule Walk-up Appointment
- Cancel Walk-up Appointment
- Changed:
- Walk-up Check-in (Template) topic and its associated NLU intent has been deprecated.
- Submit A Request (Template) topic and its associated NLU intent has been deprecated
- New:
- Version 7.1.4 - July 2022
- Fixed:
- Minor issues with OOB topics fixed
- Walk-up Check-in
- Submit a Request
- Create Office 365 Group
- Minor issues with OOB topics fixed
- Fixed:
- Version 7.1.2 - May 2022 (San Diego)
- New:
- Multi-language support: Mapped ITSM prebuilt topics to new languages supported by ITSM Virtual Agent.
- French Canadian
- Dutch
- Troubleshoot Slow Computer (Agent Clicent Collector) topic helps end users fix their slow computer using Virtual Agent. Topic is built using Agent Client Collector (ACC) for automated remediation.
- Deflection tracker: Deflection tracker added to topics to save time. New deflection tracker has been added to prebuilt topics catering to fulfillers and requester topics.
- Multi-language support: Mapped ITSM prebuilt topics to new languages supported by ITSM Virtual Agent.
- Changed:
- Updated Walk-up Checkin topic to include entity recognition.
- Updated Manage Meeting (EXO) topic to enable Webex online meeting scheduling, using Manage Meeting topic.
- Updated Set OOO reply Exchange Online (Template) to include entity recognition to identify the dates when a user will be out of office.
- Updated Set OOO reply Exchange Server (Template) to include entity recognition to identify the dates when a user will be out of office.
- New:
- Version 6.5.3 - May 2022 (Rome)
- Fixed:
- Submit a Request:
- Issue with showing images for catalog items on the Virtual Agent bot
- Inactive catalog item being surfaced on search
- Submit a Request:
- Fixed:
- Version 6.4.1 - February 2022
- New: Mapping of ITSM OOB Topics to new Language Models (Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Chinese (Simplified), Brazilian Portuguese & Korean)
- Changed: Updated 'Submit a Request' topic to utilize the new entity and vocabulary source to improve catalog search
- Version 6.3.4 - December 2021
- New:
- Provision Citrix Desktop/Application: Helps users get a new Citrix desktop or applications provisioned.
- New topics:
- Provision Citrix Desktop/Apps (Template)
- _citrix_workspace_provision_
- New Notification: Citrix provision notification
- Functional dependency: Citrix IT Service Management Connector
- New topics:
- Manage Meeting (MS Exchange Server): Helps on-prem users to schedule, reschedule, and cancel meetings.
- New topic: Manage Meetings EXS (Template)
- Functional dependency: Microsoft Exchange Server
- Windows 365 Cloud PC: With this update, any request for Windows 365 Cloud PC would require an approval from manager before getting provisioned.
- Topic Updated: Windows 365 Cloud PC (Template)
- Flow created for approval: Request Windows 365 Cloud PC
- Catalog Item: Windows 365 Cloud PC
- Functional dependency: Azure AD
- Provision Citrix Desktop/Application: Helps users get a new Citrix desktop or applications provisioned.
- New:
- Version 6.2.3 - November 2021
- Fixed:
- Fixes for book Conference Room EXO and EXS topics
- MS Teams Custom control is shipped as active
- Changed:
- Updated Create Change Request and Create Problem topics to show Configuration Item (CI) list
- Updated RSA Token topic to support device entity
- Changes to GuestWifiAccess Topic, Submit a Request, Check IT Ticket Status topics
- Updated content for Troubleshoot MS teams topic block
- Fixed:
- Version 6.2.0 - October 2021
- New:
- New topic: Local Admin Access – ACC (Template) - Helps user get admin access on their MAC device. The agent (Agent Client Collector i.e. ACC) running on the user's device provides the access automatically.
- New actionable notification: Software Installation
- Changed:
- Add User To Office 365 Group (Template): Add multiple users simultaneously
- Deflection tracker added to below self-service topics:
- Local Admin Access (Template)
- Book Conference Room EXO
- Book Conference Room OnPrem (Template)
- My Assigned Equipment (Template)
- Service Disruptions (Template)
- Open IT Ticket 2.0 (Template)
- VPN Connectivity (Template)
- Check IT Ticket Status (Template)
- Escalate IT Ticket (Template)
- Meeting Room Issues (Template)
- Guest Wifi Access (Template)
- Walk-up Check-in
- Process Approval (Template)
- Submit a request (Template)
- New:
- Version 6.1.2 - September 2021
- New:
- Windows 365 Cloud PC (Template) topic helps users provision a Windows 365 Cloud PC from Virtual Agent conversation.
- MS Teams custom control: User can fill out all the details of a meeting before checking for availability and setting up the meeting.
- Changed:
- Deflection Tracker added to topics to improve the Virtual Agent Analytics:
- Email Setup (Template)
- Repository Access (Template)
- RSA Token (Template)
- Get Zoom Meeting Recording (Template)
- Email Issues (Template)
- Printer Issues (Template)
- Collaboration Applications (Template)
- Hardware Issues (Template)
- Add User to AD Group (Template)
- Remove User from AD Group (Template)
- Create AD Distribution Group (Template)
- Show My AD Group Membership (Template)
- Add Owner to Office 365 Group (Template)
- Remove Office 365 group Owner (Template)
- Create Office 365 Group (Template)
- Add User to Office 365 Group (Template)
- Remove Office 365 group Users (Template)
- Get Office 365 Group Details (Template)
- Deflection Tracker added to topics to improve the Virtual Agent Analytics:
- New:
- Version 6.0.4 - July 2021
- New: Mapped topics to French and German NLU model intents
- Changed: Actionable notification framework upgrade
- Removed: Manage Distribution List VA topic (Deprecated)
- Version 5.4.1 - June 2021
- New: Topic Block to add MS team meeting link
- Changed:
- Create Zoom Meeting Link (Template)
- Set OOO reply Exchange Server (Template)
- Version 5.3.1 - May 2021
- New: Manage meeting topic to schedule, reschedule and cancel any meeting as a host
- Change: Customisable OOO message for Exchange Server
- Version 5.2.3 - April 2021
- New:
- Actionable Notifications
- Approve Topic
- Reject Topic
- Show Details Topic
- Hardware Issues Topic
- Incident Auto Resolution and Topic Mapping
- Actionable Notifications
- Changed:
- Get Zoom Meeting Recording Topic
- Exchange Online Topics
- Set OOO Automatic Reply EXO
- Exchange Server Topics
- Set OOO Automatic Reply OnPrem
- New:
- Version 5.1.3 - March 2021
- New:
- Actionable Notifications
- Approver - Request Approval Notification
- Approver - Requested Item Approval Notification
- End User - Request Open on Behalf Of
- Actionable Notifications
- Changed:
- Updated existing Get Zoom Meeting Recording topic to provide option for sharing recording to calendar invite attendees.
- Refactored additional topics to leverage Rich Text Editor.
- Flagged Get Password Reset Link topic for deprecation.
- New:
- Version 5.0.3 - February 2021
- New:
- Get Zoom Meeting Recording Topic
- Actionable Notifications
- Incidents
- Service Desk opened incident on behalf of user
- Knowledge base article attached
- New Comments
- Incident Resolved
- Requested Item - Comments
- Incidents
- Added support for Incident Auto-Resolution topics
- Changed:
- Refactored existing topics to leverage Rich Text Editor
- New:
- Version 4.2.3 - January 2021
- New:
- Exchange Online TopicsBook Conference Room EXO
- Exchange Server TopicsBook Conference Room OnPrem
- Fixed: Resolved minor translation issues with topics.
- New:
- Version 4.1.3 - December 2020
- New:
- Microsoft Active Directory Group Management Topics
- Create Distribution List
- Add User to a Distribution List
- Remove User from a Distribution List
- Show Membership Details
- Exchange Online Topics
- Set Email Auto Reply
- Exchange Server Topics
- Set Email Auto Reply
- Collaboration Software Troubleshooting Topic
- Topic Blocks
- Add Zoom online meeting link to meeting
- MS Teams Troubleshooting
- Cisco Webex Troubleshooting
- Microsoft Active Directory Group Management Topics
- New:
- Version 4.0.5 - November 2020
- Changed: Minor changes to error display messages
- Removed: Search KB topic was removed to prevent conflicts with the Search Fallback topic
- Version 4.0.3 - October 2020
- New:
- Office 365 Group Management Topics
- Create Office 365 Group
- Add User to Office 365 Group
- Remove Office 365 Users
- Add Owner to Office 365 Group
- Remove Office 365 Group Owner
- Get Office 365 Group Details
- Office 365 Group Management Topics
- Changed: Updated existing topics to leverage reference choice input control
- New:
- Version 3.0.4 - July 2020
- New:
- 5 additional intelligent and dynamic conversation flows to improve user experience.
- Pre-built Predictive Intelligence clustering solution definitions to help identify ITSM Virtual Agent conversations that can best support your business.
- ITSM Virtual Agent notifications to automatically notify users on the status of incidents and requests. Full release notes can be found below. https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/paris-release-notes/page/release-notes/it-service-management/itsm-virtual-agent-rn.html
- New: